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Military Judge Refuses Obama Reqest for Trial Delay
Politics Daily — ... A military judge overseeing the tribunal of the alleged mastermind of the attack on the USS Cole has denied a request from military prosecutors for a 120-day suspension. President Obama ordered prosecutors to seek delays in all of the military commissions, so that his Administration could review the status of each. But Col. James Pohl would have none of it. In a sharply worded ruling, Pohl rebuked the Obama Administration, and asserted that the military tribunals must proceed. ...

Military Judge Refuses Obama Request for Trial Delay
Politics Daily — ... A military judge overseeing the tribunal of the alleged mastermind of the attack on the USS Cole has denied a request from military prosecutors for a 120-day suspension. President Obama ordered prosecutors to seek delays in all of the military commissions, so that his Administration could review the status of each. But Col. James Pohl would have none of it. In a sharply worded ruling, Pohl rebuked the Obama Administration, and asserted that the military tribunals must proceed. ...

Obama administration rebuked on Gitmo delays
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Barack Obama wanted all proceedings for military tribunals halted for 120 days in order to determine how to proceed with the adjudication of the remaining detainees at Guantanamo Bay.  In a serious blow to those plans, a Gitmo military judge rejected the delay and instructed the government to proceed with its case against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.  Obama will either have to comply or release Nashiri: A military judge in Guantanamo Bay has denied the Obama administration’s request to delay proceedings for 120 days in the case of a detainee accused of planning the October 2000 ...

Military Judge Denies Obama Request to Suspend Hearings at Guantanamo
The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — Peter Finn | January 29 WAPO - In one of his first actions, President Obama issued an executive order instructing Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates to make sure all military commission proceedings "are halted" during a review of the cases of individual detainees at Guantanamo and of the broader system of military commission trials. But Pohl said he found the government's reasoning "unpersuasive" and he clearly felt he was not bound to bow to the administration's wishes...."The Commission is unaware of how conducting an arraignment would preclude any ...

You Be the Judge
Neptunus Lex — Don’t know about you, but I found this headline a little strange: Military Judge Denies Obama Request to Suspend Hearings at Guantanamo A military judge in Guantanamo Bay today denied the Obama administration’s request to delay proceedings for 120 days in the case of a detainee accused of planning the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole warship, an al-Qaeda strike that killed 17 service members and injured 50 others… Pohl said he found the government’s reasoning ...

James Pohl: Military Judge Refuses Obama Executive Order
Blue Star Chronicles — ... Military Judge Colonel James Pohl has denied Obama’s order to suspend the legal proceedings underway at Gitmo. In particular, he has denied the ‘request’ from Obama to delay the trial of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri who is implicated in the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in ...